george beech



G. BEECH COMBINED MOP AND WRINGER PAIL.

(No Model.)

No. 562,349. P a'tentedJune16,1896.

" UNITED STATES;

PAT NT OFFICE.

GEORGE BEECH, or MANsEIELD, orno, hssieuon OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES E ANKwELnoN, SAME PLACE.

COMBINED- MOP AN D WRINGER PAlL.

srEomIoArrIoN taming pm of Letters Patent No. 562,349, dated June 16, 1896.

, Application filed March 9, I896. $erial No. 582,416. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

zen of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented a certainnew and useful Improvement in Combined Mop and WVringer Pails, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a cheap and strong mop-wringer and pail therefor; but, in order not to be misunderstood, I wish to observe here that the pail itself may be of any ordinary construction, and may have applied to it the mechanism constituting the wringer, as will presently more fully appear.

The invention comprises parallel slotted guides, in the slots in which are arranged rollers, which are adapted to rotate freely therein, and which are normally held apart by means of springs, which are connected to their journals. The journals of'one of the rollers are connected with a pedal by chains or other suitable flexible mediums passed over pulleys in loops in the ends of the guides,

said flexible mediums being held in place by said loops. The pedal is fitted to the pail, and is normally elevated by the stress of the springs, so that when the pedal is depressed the roller with which it is connectedis caused to approach the other roller, so as to apply pressure or exert squeezing action upon a mop or the like placed between the two rollers. The pail is provided with a foot-piece by which the operator may steady it or hold it in place while using the wringer.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective view, with the pail partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection, and Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the guides and illustrating a modification of its construcis provided with a longitudinal slot cl. The

slots at of these guides receive the journals e Be it known that I, GEORGE BEECH, a citi the pail, and below the level of its top, thereby to avoid as much as possible sloppiness about the pail when in use.

In order to bring the rollers together with sufficient force to cause them to squeeze a mop or other compressible object placed be tween them, I connect one of the rollers, by means of cords, chains or other flexible mediums i, with a pedal 76, which may be pivoted (as by screws) to the outside of the pail, and said pedalmay be provided with the foothold Z. I have shown the chains 7; as applied directly to the journals of the roller, and extending thence over pulleys m, which are secured to the guides c. A preferred arrangement is to bend over the ends of the guides, as shown more especially in Figs. 1 and 3 at n, and to journal the pulleys in these bentover" ends, the pulleys thus being protected or sheathed, and the chains being supplied with guides whereby they are prevented from jumping the pulleys. The bent-over ends of the guides may be extended into the kerfs or notches in the edge of the pail, as in Fig. 1, or they may be butted up against the pail either directly or by means of laterally-extended feet 0, as in Fig. 3, and where these.

laterally-extended feet are used they may serve to receive screws or other devices where by the guides are positively secured to the ail.

p The guides may be fitted so tightly in the kerfs or notches as to require no other fastening, but obviously it is within my invention to apply such independent or supplemental fastenings, such as screws or the like.

The pail may be supplied with a right-angle or other foothold p, secured thereto as by screws and extending from the rear around to one side, as in Fig. 1, or a right-angle foothold 19, Fig. 2, may be used in order to provide a medium whereby the pail is steadied in use, the foothold in Fig. 1 being especially designed for pails to be used by women in order to prevent fouling of their skirts.

The pail may be supplied wit-l1 any'usual bail and handle 1".

I have thus described the best form in which I have contemplated applying the principle of my invention, but wish to be understood as not limiting my invention to the details of construction and arrangement excepting in so far as such details enter into the claim of invention as hereinafter stated.

What I claim is The combination of the parallel slotted guides adapted to be applied to a pail by means of kerfs or notches in the edge of said 'pail, the said guides having pulleys applied in loops at one of their ends, rollers having their journals arranged in the slots in the said guides, so as to be capable of axial rotation therein and movement toward and from one another longitudinally of said guides, springarms interposed between the said rollers and applied to their journals and normally separating the said rollers, a pedal adapted to be applied to the pail, and chains or like flexible mediums connecting one of the rollers with the pedal and passing over the pulleys in the ends of the guides and held in place by the loops in the ends of the guides in which the pulleys are arranged, substantially as de scribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of March, A. D. 1896.

GEORGE BEECH. Witnesses:

ANDREW SrEvENsoN, L. W. STEVENSON. 

